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I watched "World Trade Center" with my family last weekend. It's the story of two policemen trapped in the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center who actually survived. As they lay trapped, they encouraged each other to stay awake during the night, because if they fell asleep while bleeding internally, their bodies would tend to give up the will to live and they would die.

I think that too often we allow our lives to become routine exercises in existing. In a sense, we die to real life - the life God intended us to live. This is very apparent to me as a member of my own household just wants to sleep 20+ hours a day. She has evidently lost the will to live, really live, and has already mentally gone to sleep - never to live real life again.

Here is what George MacDonald said about this:Let us in all the troubles of life remember - that our one lack is LIFE - that what we need is more life - more of the life-making presence in us making us more, and more largely, alive. When most oppressed, when most weary of life, as our belief would phrase it, let us bethink ourselves that it is in truth the inroad and presence of death we are weary of. When most inclined to sleep, let us rouse ourselves to live. Of all things let us avoid the false refuge of a weary collapse, a hopeless yielding to things as they are. It is the life in us that is discontented, we need more of what is discontented, not more of the cause of its discontent.